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“They carry the nut to an open place, and they bury it an inch down. It’s perfect; it germinates in the spring.” An average eastern gray squirrel might cache around 3,000 nuts per year. If it doesn’t ...

The squirrel in the video is trying to stash all its pine cones and nuts in a secret cache before winter comes, but a black bear descends, and starts eating its reserves. The squirrel, rather than ...

I was recently asked by a local TV news station to answer a question about how squirrels find their buried nuts. This is a great example of super cool things that go on in nature that most people ...

"TIL Rather than use CGI, Tim Burton had 40 squirrels trained to crack nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory," one Reddit user claimed in 2017. "Did they get paid or were they just free labor?" ...

Diane in Red Wing emailed us wondering: How do squirrels remember where they bury nuts? Good Question. WCCO's Kirsten Mitchell found out how. Love them or hate them, fall is crunch time for squirrels.